Far and Wide

A lesson in how to look back, learn, and move on, onward into the future

Where I discover that surroundings matter and I’m no longer 25.

A serialized memoir of my year-long romp around the globe as a reluctant tourist in search of a life less ordinary.

The artifice and ambiance of a quaint hotel is far better than a transactional Airbnb

A buckthorn-thick trail reveals a lot about the Scots

I went on a driving trip to Northern Iowa for Labor Day weekend, a little jaunt that took seven hours each way. For some this might be…

Can we really live in bubbles or our own making?

A class in Provence confirms my hate-hate relationship with cooking

What is it I’m sensing? Is it a warning sign?

Finding my tribe in a tiny bar in Tokyo

It was time to shake it up. Berlin would come to the rescue.